FBI Monitored Web Sites for 2004 Protests

Washington Post via Drudge ^ | July 18, 2005 | Michael Dobbs

[Barbarian6]

FBI agents monitored Web sites calling for protests against the 2004 political conventions in New York and Boston on behalf of the bureau's counterterrorism unit, according to FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The American Civil Liberties Union pointed to the documents as evidence that the Bush administration has reacted to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States by blurring the distinction between terrorism and political protest. FBI officials defended the involvement of counterterrorism agents in providing security for the Republican and Democratic conventions as an administrative convenience.

[adam_az]

LOL it's the ACLU which is unable to identify the difference between blurring the distinction between terrorism and political protest.

[SandRat]

Now the DOJ needs to go after the ACLU under the RICO statutes.

[Echo Talon]

Good! Hope they label them a terrorist organization and throw them in jail.

[Stellar Dendrite]

I can think of better ways but I can't say them here....

[Paleo Conservative]

They got some 'splainin' to do.

[FairOpinion]

Only 1173 pages?

They better take another look at ACLU.

[kcvl]

Now the DOJ needs to go after the ACLU under the RICO statutes.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

The ACLU can spew all the BS they want, they are still a front for the commies, and what other anti - American activity that is happening here in the USA and across the world.

[taxesareforever]

Only 1173 pages? They better take another look at ACLU.

I assume that this is the index.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ACLU gets special mention in this:

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Unholy Alliance
by David Horowitz
Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 089526076X
Hardcover - 256 pages (September 2004)

In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz, confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the “Great Satan” with America’s radical Islamic enemies. This Left, which once made common cause with Communists, has now joined forces with radical Islam in attacking America’s defenses at home and its policies abroad. From their positions of influence in the university and media culture, leftists have defined America as the “root cause” of the attacks against it. In a remarkable exploration of the “Mind of the Left,” Horowitz traces the evolution of American radicalism from its Communist past to its “anti-war” present. He then shows how this Left was able to turn the Democratic Party presidential campaign around and reshape its views on the War on Terror.

Horowitz’s Unholy Alliance, writes John Haynes, the noted historian of American Communism, “is an insightful, brilliant examination of the mental world of the radical left. Horowitz shows how today’s radicals, unwilling to reflect on the internal flaws that destroyed Marxism-Leninism from within, have embraced an all-consuming nihilism in its place. This has led them to a hatred of American institutions and a solidarity with Islamic terrorists that makes the radical left more properly regarded as dangerous than loony.”

Unholy Alliance is an eye-opening book that should unsettle conventional assumptions and reveals why intellectuals and political leaders who applaud Michael Moore are no laughing matter. As Harvey Klehr, author of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, writes, “The world Communist movement may be moribund, but its habits of mind and ideological fantasies have not disappeared. This is a fascinating and depressing account.”

Price: $19.01 - Click here to order:

[Pajamajan]

American

Communist

Lawyers

Uunited to bing America down.

Anti

Christian

Lawyers

United to destroy America's Judeo-Christian heritage.

[Humidston]

The American leftist/socialist/communist/humanist movement believes they can cozy up with Islamofascists until they attain their own victory.

They are going to use the guise of fighting those "crazy religious fundamentalists" (read ALL religions), to tear down our country and it's Judeo Christian heritage.

IMHO, the ACLU, Soros, et al, are as dangerous to our country as those wall-eyed fanatical Muslims. They're just much more subtle.

[SevenofNine]

That all I am shock with that long history of ACLU that is

I am disappoint LOL!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Yup ... that fits the bill.
Can't understand why, they get mad when you call a spade a spade.

[Conservative Infidel]

Who would have been among the first ones screaming that the Bush admin. had not done enough to stop it had there been some sort of incident at either one of the conventions?

[NaughtiusMaximus]

This country is in greater danger from domestic traitors than from international terrorists. I'm glad the FBI was monitoring websites. Now, that being said, considering the lameness of the liberals on the net, the boys must have been rolling on the floor kicking up their heels at most of the crapola they had to read.

[Phantom Lord]

The web sites are publicly available to every person on the planet with an internet connection. Reviewing publicly available information is not a crime or something we should complain about for any reason.

The rule is simple. If you don't want someone to know about something, don't post it on the internet!

[SittinYonder]

I wonder if the FBI is monitoring FreeRepublic?

[IamConservative]

I wonder if the FBI is monitoring FreeRepublic?

I would say yes.